Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-20
Spelling FOR A FIGHT.
A IOUiSiANiAN WHO GENES OF A
KILLING FAMILY

Tries Extraordinary Means to Make d
| Fellow Cit zen Toe the Mark, but in
Yain-Origin OF the Troublesome
More Remarks on the Fisheries Cues
tion-Ofiicia, Notes.
WASHINGTON CRY, Jan. a0.-Tuesday
| night something of sensation was created
in the barber shop at Wizards hotel, when
Congressman j. Floyd King, of louisiana,
and Cuthbert Jones, Of the same state, had a
personal encounter. For two years Mr.
Jones has been making a vigorous war upon
King, and was the cause of his defeat for a
| denomination. The trouble between the two
men is of long standing, and found its origin
| IN family feud number of years ago.
Tuesday night, before Jones left the barber
shop, he turned to one of the employees, asked
If King owed any money there, and advised
the shopkeeper not to trust him King at the
time was in the shop waiting his turn Jones
went over to where King was sitting, and
opened conversation with the congress-
man by speaking disrespectfully of
his father and mother, and using
an offensive epithet about the person to
whom he was speaking. To all this abuse
King made no reply. Jones repeated his Ian
guage. and said that he stood ready to prove
all that be had said Still King remained
inotionless and silent Jones becoming more
enraged at the extraordinary manner of
King, laid his hand in semi-menacing man.
ner upon the face Of the Louisianian, with
the hope OF provoking him to resent the insults
he was heaping upon him. But there was
no response. There is scarcely any compar-
ison between the two men in physical pow
ers King is powerfully built man, weigh
ing perhaps 225 pounds, while Jones is a
small, thin, wiry, nervous little fellow who
will tip the scales at about AS pounds
Jones afterward said to n reporter that he
had made every attempt to provoke King to
desire to fight to a finish. Il was not
armed continued Jones, land never carry
any weapons. King has injured me and the
good name of my family, and all l ask is the
opportunity of reaping satisfaction / have
tried every possible way to cause him to re-
sent the abuse have given him, but he is too
much Of coward TO meet me-
The quarrel broke out last Jnne, when it
was reported in Washington that Jones was
to be appointed United States consul at Cal
lao. The news of this brought out an ac-
count of feud between the Liddell and
Jones families, involving, it was said, anum-
Der of asassinations and murders The feud
began before Cuthbert Jones was born. The
Washington Sunday Herald published an
account of the troubles, written by Col.
Roberts, a somewhat eccentric character.
formerly we'll known in Washington The
following history of the feud is told by King
The Joneses and Liddells were wealthy
planters on the Black river in Louisiana
There was good deal of pickering between
the families, which eliminated one day in
Mrs Liddell, young and beautiful woman,
riding TO the Jones plantation, charg-
ing Jones with circulating a defama-
tory story and shooting him in the
face Next day the Joneses wavlaid and
killed son of Mrs. LiiielL The Liilells
retaliated, and in a pitched battle three or
four persons were killed and several wounded
A sort of compromisa was effected after this,
but there We're occasional encounters between
the members of the two families Finally the
Joneses, father and two sons. boarded a
steamer and shot Gen. Liddell The murder
ers were lodged in jail, but that night party
Of Liddell's friends took the elder Jones and
one son from the jail and lynched them The
other son, Cuthbert Builltt Jones, the man
who insulted King, escaped by a desperate
leap
The trouble was reopened in Washington
in November by the publication by Jones of
a soathing letter addressed to King, applying
to him all sorts of epithets. King on No
vember % published card replying TO Jones
and charging that he was an assassin and
declining further controversy with him.